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Do I laugh or cry at this one? It's getting hard to define "too outrageous" these days... Is George W. Bush really a dope-smoking lizard-being who has lived since the days of ancient Egypt on the planet as a resident E.T.? Chuck Young GTE Internetworking On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Jerry Feldman wrote: > Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 11:43:53 -0400 > From: Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> > To: discuss at tarnhelm.blu.org > Subject: New Micro$oft trial > > Microsoft announced that it is selling advertising space in the error > messages that appear in Windows. Acknowledging for the first time > that the average user of their operating system encounters error > messages at least several times a day, Microsoft is trying to take > financial advantage of the unavoidable opportunity to make an ad > impression. "We estimate that throughout the world at any given > moment several million people are getting a 'general protection fault' > or 'illegal operation' warning. We will be able to generate > significant revenue by including a short advertising message along > with it," said Microsoft marketing director Nathan Mirror. > > The Justice Department immediately indicated that they intend to > investigate whether Microsoft is gaining an unfair advantage in > reaching the public with this advertising by virtue of its > semi-monopolistic control over error messages. > > -- > Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> > Boston Linux and Unix > http://www.blu.org > > - > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the > message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored). > - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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